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Treasurer Jim “Chicken” Chalmers wrote his PhD on Paul Keating and has now met his mentor’s most memorable achievement: endless recession. As expected, yesterday’s National Accounts described the ongoing per-capita GDP reaming of Australians by their Treasurer. Outside of pandemics, it is forty years since households have been so bashed up. Jim Chalmers has shrunk

After two years of war in Ukraine, western mainstream media still pretends that its coverage of this tragedy is in some sense "quality journalism". To any thinking observer this is laughable. Yet the fog of war is spread by the propaganda outlets that themselves accuse all alternative information sources as disinformation.

Gareth Aird, head of Australian economics at CBA, has penned the below note in response to Wednesday’s weak national accounts data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Aird maintains that the soft consumer backdrop and rising unemployment will force the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to commence an interest rate easing cycle in Q4

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NSW planning minister Paul Scully has promised to process up to nearly 50 new wind, solar and battery projects to help country's biggest grid catch up with other states.

Sharri Markson interviewed me on Tuesday night for Sky News, during which I spoke about the escalating rental crisis affecting Australia as a result of the federal government’s record-breaking immigration. Below are key highlights from the interview. Edited Transcript: Sharri Markson: We’ve spoken about the impact of immigration on housing at the start of the

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The history of such experiments is not promising. Why would those in the US like the game of rugby league, when an established code of superficial similarity already exists? Fundamental differences, for one thing, abound. The US NFL Superbowl tries to keep blood and violence off the pitch. Force, when exercised, is chivalric, the moves…

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Solutions for Climate Australia Media Release Climate advocacy organisation Solutions for Climate Australia today called on the Federal Liberal and National Parties to release policies that would reduce climate pollution this decade, not talk up unproven nuclear reactors.   ‘We are deeply concerned that the Federal Coalition parties are promoting nuclear reactors and other dangerous distractions…

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Oxfam warns that over six million people from farming families in Zambia are facing acute food shortages and malnutrition until next growing season, which is twelve months away, due to a severe drought, exacerbated by climate change and El Nino, which has caused massive crop failures for half of the nation’s “planted area.” The drought…

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The situation facing Australian renters continues to darken. Domain’s latest rental vacancy data shows that the national vacancy rate hit another record low of just 0.7% in February: Sydney’s and Melbourne’s rental vacancy rates fell to a record low of 0.8%, according to Domain. Brisbane’s rental vacancy rate fell for the second straight month to

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In cases where members are elected to represent single-member wards, or divisions, Queensland councils use the optional preferential voting (OPV) electoral system to elect members. This covers all mayoral elections, as well as council seats in most urban south-east Queensland councils.

Chairman Xeating is back and he’s mansplaining! Former prime minister Paul Keating has accused Australian Security Intelligence Organisation chief Mike Burgess of running a “goon show” and undermining efforts to stabilise ties with China, while also lashing Foreign Minister Penny Wong for being out of step with South-East Asia. Mr Keating issued a blistering statement

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Greg Jericho from The Guardian and The Australia Institute penned an article lamenting the collapse in Australia’s productivity performance this century. “Whenever discussing any policy, we always should step back and ask what we are trying to do, and whether what we have been doing has worked”. “Take, for example, industrial relations. Have IR policies